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Originally Posted by thesheriff443

No that’s not what some of us do.

Two self pitying liars got found out, so we mock them for the Idiots they are.

But the court ruling in their favour and awarding £1 demonstrates that they were in the right and the paper was in the wrong, however there’s no evidence that they were financially disadvantaged by what the paper wrote. That’s the point of the token payment. People are trying to frame it as the court giving some sort of petty “piss take” verdict which is not the case and would be horrifyingly unprofessional and worrying if it was.

But people are like “Ha ha ha £1 the court clearly does not believe them and is mocking them haha cockadoodledoooooo.”

Load of nonsense.

If the court didn’t believe them the court would have ruled against them and not upheld the claim. They wouldn’t have ruled in their favour but only given £1 damages in some sort of playground “psyche!!!” prank for goodness sakes.

People just don’t understand the purpose or significance of the £1 damages so they make up their own (daft) explanation.